You were on the right track Anand. I changed the
permissions on the /etc directory per the other
reply (from Peter) to my plea for help. And now
you see this message is from the problem child
(linux box).
Thanks,
kelly
Quoting Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:11:02AM -0600, Kelly Scroggins wrote:
The problem isn't sendmail. It's your /etc directory, as the log shows.
Somehow, you've given it group write permission. As root, run the following
command, and you should be fine:
# chmod 0755 /etc
> I'm having a problem sending mail *>OUT<* of my Linux box. Recieving
> mail works very well.
>
> This problem just 'suddenly' appeared a month or two ago. Everything
> worked very well for several months.
>
> The Linux box is Red Hat 6.1, stock kernel, and the email client is Mutt
> 1.0pre3us.
>
>
>
> The error produced by Mutt is :
>
> /etc/sendmail.cf: line 90: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw:
> Group writable directory
>
>
>
> When I attempt to start Sendmail from the console prompt it says this :
>
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> 451 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 90: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw:
> Group writable directory [FAILED]
>
>
>
> I've uninstalled Sendmail and re-intatlled Sendmail but I the errors
> persist.
>
> I've changed the permissions on the /etc/sendmail.cw file too. The
> change I made was to make it world writable. That did not work either.
>
> The default permissions are :
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Sep 1 1999 /etc/sendmail.cw
>
> If anyone can offer some suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Thanks,
> kelly
>
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Anand
